You may or may not have come across the girl in the states who’s auctioning off her virginity in order to pay for college. If you haven’t here’s an article.

There’s a few things that get me by this article. Firstly I’d expect that many Christians (if not most) will find issues with this from a moral perspective and I follow those footsteps….not just because of sex before marriage but the selling of sex (I believe) is wrong.

Secondly there seems to be a lot of people (including the girls mum) who disagree with the whole process, and I think to an extent I’m surprised at the amount of disagreement in a world where prostitution is fairly rarely condemned and where pornography also often gets the blind eye, to move more locally the area of the states where this is taking place is in one of several states where brothels are legal, yet in this sexually open society there seems to be a disagreement with the whole process.

Some would argue that this disagreement is because she may be hoping that like that last girl to sell her virginity that the buyer will just be bidding high in order to give her the money and let her keep her virginity but who knows her motives other than wanting to pay college fees (I can’t help but feel the £500,000 she’s aiming for will more than manage that!).

I also wonder the type of person who’s likely to bid on her virginity, I’d imagine it would consist of very rich older men or men who get some kind of buzz from taking a girls virginity.

I guess the worst thing is that the whole process is showing our society that the selling of sex is 1 - becoming more acceptable and more worryingly 2 - an easy way to make money. Surveys in Britain have shown that more and more young girls are going into prostitution and escorting because of the good money in it….and with the cost of education (particularly university education) and student loans barely covering housing costs let alone food who can really blame them? The only other job prospects I suspect consist of stacking shelves or pouring pints both of which often pay absolute minimum, as one girl being interviewed on her job as an escort said ‘Uni students are meant to sleep around, the only difference is I get paid to’

So what is the issue here? Is the issue promiscuity? Is the issue the selling of sex? or is the issue greed in our money-hungry society?